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Recent Posts

  • An estuary where the sea meets dirt and debris, symbolizing the heavy stillness of anxiety.Living With Anxiety — A Little Bit More Than Before
    In Buffering Diaries, Cuts and Cracks
  • Yellow balcony with a coffee mug on the railing, symbolizing a quiet moment of connection with the woman across the balcony.The Lady Across the Balcony
    In Buffering Diaries, Cuts and Cracks
  • Daughter sitting at her mother’s resting place, brushing off dust, with sunlight falling through leaves.Mummy’s Floor
    In Buffering Diaries
  • Woman with cigarette—contemplative, composed, unfiltered.
    Bold Roast,  Mangii Gossip Diaries

    Women of Grit Smoking Family Story: Beedis and Toothaches

    July 28, 2025 /

    In my family, outrage was selective, cigarettes were occasional, and hypocrisy smoked more than anyone admitted. Toothaches run deep—maybe even inherited.

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  • Stillness with emotional weight – visual metaphor for emotional fatigue caused by silence
    Buffering Diaries,  Cuts and Cracks

    When Silence Drains You: Surviving Emotional Fatigue in a Quiet World

    July 28, 2025 /

    Heavy silence can feel draining, overwhelming, and emotionally exhausting—here’s what it means and why it happens.

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  • A woman stares wide-eyed at her laptop, ankle in a boot, in a home office. Caption: "So much for the ‘piece’ of ‘peace’ I typed a minute ago." A visual take on losing peace and finding sarcasm.
    #Merlunfiltered - The Visual Mess,  Buffering Diaries

    Losing Peace, Finding Sarcasm

    July 26, 2025 /

    Some rooms hold ambition. Mine just holds me, a laptop with a crooked leg, and rain that thinks it’s important.

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  • Text graphic for blog post The Addiction to Being Liked
    Bold Roast,  Cuts and Cracks

    The Addiction to Being Liked

    July 20, 2025 /

    The obsession with being liked is a leech at a blood buffet—bloated, done, and dead. You? Still left dizzy and emotionally anaemic. I used to beg for approval. Now? I like churros. And I don't care if churros like me back. Welcome to the era of not being Wi-Fi—because I’m not for everyone, and I’ve finally made peace with it.

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  • #Merlunfiltered - The Visual Mess,  Cuts and Cracks

    Raw Emotional Self-Reflection: Leastinterested, A Reader Who Wasn’t

    July 20, 2025 /

    Library runs were my performance art. Surrounded by readers of romance, thrillers, and law, I chose cartoons and snacks. While everyone grew up citing novels, I memorized funeral listings and shop names. This is for the ones who never read the books, but still wrote their own damn story.

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MERLYN MATHIAS

Truth-slinger. Word snob.
Chaos whisperer.
I don’t sugarcoat —
I serve the whole damn lemon.
Fueled by caffeine, side-eyes, and
2 a.m. honesty.
Too honest? Too bad.

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Recent Posts

  • Living With Anxiety — A Little Bit More Than Before
  • The Lady Across the Balcony
  • Mummy’s Floor

Sections

  • #Merlunfiltered – The Visual Mess (18)
  • Bold Roast (23)
  • Buffering Diaries (31)
  • Cuts and Cracks (18)
  • Mangii Gossip Diaries (8)
  • My Highness Zoe (3)
  • Royal Furball Chronicles (2)
  • Unfiltered Letters (12)

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